American Revolutionary War
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Volunteers vow to continue re-enactment of Revolutionary War crossing of Delaware despite budget cuts...Christmas re-enactment, local officials said. The 1776 surprise attack on Hessian forces in Trenton was a turning point in the Revolutionary War. The event costs between $35,000 and $50,000 a year. Re-enactors and the Bucks County... In this article: Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania, Trenton, Delaware, George Washington, Delaware River, and Washington Crossing Historic Park |
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washingtonpost.com | 1 day ago
Small SC county reels from corruption scandal
...seats and let the car roll into a lake. She is serving a life sentence. Once home to thriving textile mills, and the site of historic Revolutionary War battles, Union County's unemployment rate now ranks among the top five in this state,...
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Today in History - Nov. 19
...Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. In 1794, the United States and Britain signed Jay's Treaty, which resolved some issues left over from the Revolutionary War. In 1831, the 20th president of the United States, James Garfield, was born in Orange...
In this article: Talk show, Indiana Pacers, Ford Motor Co., Apollo XII, Treaty of Versailles, Revolutionary War, World War II, and Civil War
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A 1787 letter by George Washington is set to go on auction for a record price
...handwriting and signed with his curious "G:{+o} Washington" signature. The letter is important, historians said, because the former Revolutionary War commander had just returned from Philadelphia, where he presided over the convention...
In this article: Bushrod Washington, Constitution, George Washington, Mount Vernon, Asking price, Revolutionary War, and University of Wisconsin
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AP Online | 3 days ago
Savannah marks 100th birthday of Johnny Mercer
The statue in historic Savannah's Ellis Square gives Mercer an honor ordinarily reserved for the 18th-century founders and Revolutionary War heroes of Georgia's oldest city. The songwriter's grandson, Jim Corwin of Los Angeles,...
In this article: Savannah, Georgia, Revolutionary War, Moon River, Jeepers Creepers, and Los Angeles
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New York Post | 3 days ago
It's lights out at Prison Ships memorial
...Monument in Fort Greene Park, a tribute to the nearly 12,000 prisoners of war who died on British ships in the East River during the Revolutionary War, has dimmed - and residents' tempers are burning bright. "The monument is not getting...
In this article: Revolutionary War, Roman Polanski, and US
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Revolutionary War hero becomes honorary US citizen
WASHINGTON (AP) - Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American citizen on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for the as yet-unborn United States. President Barack Obama signed a joint resolution of the Senate...
In this article: Casimir Pulaski, George Washington, United States, Dennis Kucinich, Benjamin Franklin, Revolutionary War, Savannah, Ga, and Pulaski Day
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The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists rejected the right of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation, claiming that this violated the Rights of Englishmen. In 1775, revolutionaries gained control of each of the thirteen colonial governments, set up the Second Continental Congress, and formed a Continental Army. Petitions to the king to intervene with the parliament on their behalf resulted in Congress being declared traitors and the states in rebellion the following year. The Americans responded by formally declaring their independence as a new nation, the United States of America, claiming sovereignty and rejecting any allegiance to the British monarchy. Though France had been providing supplies, ammunition and weapons to the Americans beginning in 1776, the Continentals' capture of a British army in 1777 led France to formally enter the war on the side of the United States in early 1778, which evened the military strength with Britain. Spain and the Dutch Republic – French allies – also went to war with Britain over the next two years.
- Name:
- American Revolutionary War
- Date:
- January 01, 1775
- Outcome:
- Treaty of Paris
- Location:
- Eastern Seaboard, Central Canada, Hudson Bay, Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Gibraltar, Balearic Islands, Caribbean Sea, Central America, Indian Ocean
- Combatant:
- France
- Strength:
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- 5,000 natives
- 13,500 French
- 15,200 British regulars
- 27,000 Continentals
- 10,765 German regulars
- 5,200 Provincial regulars
- Loyalist militia
- Patriot militia
- 8,000 Spanish
- Commander:
- Joseph Brant
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